Andy tortured innocent electrons to declare:
repaired.
In Coronation Street, when a VW/Seat/Ford Shalambraxy was driven into the canal, it was stripped completely of any fluids. It was basically a shell with interior on four wheels...
Del
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I'd think so, since it would be near impossible to clean up the canal afterwards.
However, I'd love to see that episode of the Royal again, record it, and analyses the crash. My recollection is that we saw it go over the sea wall from the road in one wide shot. If there was a cut - to allow it to be changed into a rolling shell - it was *very* well done. Nor would I expect fluids to be thrown around - merely to leak out afterwards. And windows wouldn't break unless directly hit or subjected to stress through distortion.
The scene of the crash would have been cleaned up professionally afterwards. All councils would insist on this - and any decent TV company would expect to anyway.
Dave Plowman (News) ( snipped-for-privacy@davenoise.co.uk) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :
and so would minimise the clean-up cost as much as possible, by taking any 'orrible oily bits or smashable glass away.
Hi,
the series "MASH" lasted for longer than the Korean War.
>Hi Jim, that jowett javelin ZO2222 survives, I drive it regularly! They used a mock up made up out of a vw beetle. If you look you can make out the floor pan and the rear where engine should be!!
That is good news. I owned a Jowett Javelin in the early 1970s and it was a nice car to drive, and engineered a lot better than most of its contemporaries. I hated the idea that one might have been treated as a disposable prop. I am really glad it wasn't.
Jim
The nearest I ever got to a Javelin was a Bradford van, made by Jowett. The engine was amazing, it would pull in top (third) so slowly that you could hear the individual pistons firing. But the steering was almost lethal, the van oscillated down the road as the driver tried to get the loose steering under control, and managed a counter-rhythm. Tightening the adjustment on the box only improved it for a time. But it was fun and educational. This was back in the early 1970s, and it was lovely the number of 'old boys' who would stop and chat and fondly reminisce about their times working with Bradford Vans when they were younger.
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